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Tue, 28 Jun 2016 11:16:12 -0400Tue, 28 Jun 2016 11:16:12 -0400Tancredo: Trump Will Help Win Environmentalists To The Anti-Immigrant Movementhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tancredo-trump-will-help-win-environmentalists-anti-immigrant-movement
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<p>On Wednesday, former Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., <a href="http://www.630wpro.com/jd-in-dc/">joined </a>conservative radio host John DePetro at <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/rww-in-focus/anti-immigrant-lobby-white-nationalist-roots-organizations-fighting-immigration?_ga=1.82894869.22255771.1464029125">anti-immigrant hate group Federation for American Immigration Reform</a>&rsquo;s annual &ldquo;Hold Their Feet to the Fire&rdquo; radio row, where Tancredo claimed immigrants degrade the environment and expressed his hope that Donald Trump might help the anti-immigrant movement achieve its long-held goal of winning over the environmentalist movement.<br />
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&ldquo;There&rsquo;s another area in which we and Donald Trump, I think, has the ability to begin to communicate with another group that we&rsquo;ve had a difficult time with over the years, and that&rsquo;s the environmentalists, because if you concentrate on this issue, if you think about it for any length of time, you will recognize that massive immigration, both legal and illegal, has a significant impact on the environment,&rdquo; Tancredo said.<br />
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The anti-immigrant movement <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/20100701/greenwash-nativists-environmentalism-and-hypocrisy-hate">has long tried to &ldquo;greenwash&rdquo; itself</a> in a so far unsuccessful effort to build alliances with major environmentalist groups.<br />
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Tancredo claimed that &ldquo;everybody coming to Colorado will soon have to actually make reservations to get into the national park. All of the park systems throughout the country are being eroded and degraded by the massive numbers of people, the water supply, you name it.&rdquo;<br />
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&ldquo;I mean, even Colorado, there&rsquo;s no way that we can possibly keep up with the infrastructural needs of the state because of the massive number of people coming there from all over, not just from other states but, of course, all over the world,&rdquo; Tancredo said. &ldquo;And so there is a degradation of the environment with massive numbers, and a lot of people in that movement understand that.&rdquo;<br />
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Americans, Tancredo said, &ldquo;can find common ground&rdquo; on immigration restriction and environmental protection.<br />
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&ldquo;A person like Trump, I think, can actually begin to make inroads where we hadn&rsquo;t before, and this is one area,&rdquo; he said.</p>
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Nabi DresslerC4ColoradoDonald TrumpEnvironmentImmigrationJohn DePetroTom Tancredo Federation for American Immigration Reform 75821Tue, 28 Jun 2016 10:16:12 -0500EnvironmentJody Hice: Public Schools Reminiscent Of Nazi Germanyhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jody-hice-public-schools-reminiscent-nazi-germany
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<p>Jody Hice, the GOP nominee for an open House seat in Georgia, said on his radio program in 2011 that &ldquo;totalitarian&rdquo; liberals have turned public schools into &ldquo;camps for indoctrination,&rdquo; a strategy he likened to Nazi Germany.</p>
<p>Hice launched into <a href="https://archive.org/details/PublicSchoolsIndoctrinationCamp">his commentary</a> by citing a <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2011/03/271521/">similar argument made by Chuck Norris in WorldNetDaily</a> before adding his own spin to the issue.</p>
<p>Hice seems to imply that the very existence of public schools is a Nazi-like scheme, but that liberals in particular are trying to maintain their &ldquo;clutch&rdquo; on public schools in order to control &ldquo;the minds of children&rdquo; and raise money from teachers&rsquo; unions:</p>
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<p>Obviously, if we have government &mdash; which is what the public school is &mdash; if we have government indoctrinating what students are learning, then we have a problem. This took place in Germany, friends. I&rsquo;m not trying to say we are necessarily headed in that direction, but it is undeniable that one of the first things Hitler did was to grab, so to speak, the minds of the youth. And once he was able to instill in those young minds his own ideals and his own philosophy and that of the Nazi Party, then the rest of it was pretty much a piece of cake. It was a cakewalk to go through once you had the minds of the schoolchildren at every age level.</p>
<p>It is likewise just as dangerous what we are witnessing today. And it&rsquo;s obvious that the liberals in this country are going to be fighting tooth and nail to protect the public school system from getting out from underneath their total, absolute, totalitarian control. If it gets out of their control, they not only lose the minds of the children in this country, but they also lose enormous financial resources, as the teachers&rsquo; unions are the number one biggest supporter politically to liberal ideology. So there&rsquo;s a lot at stake for the liberals to continue their clutch on the public school system.</p>
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<p>Later in the program, Hice elaborated on his concerns, citing a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Freefall-American-University-Corrupting-Generation/dp/1595555544">book</a> lamenting &ldquo;political correctness" on college campuses to warn that public schools are training students to &ldquo;disdain America&rdquo; and to defend homosexuality and &ldquo;the green agendas.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;What happens when our schools become just nothing other than liberal &ndash; or, soften it up a little, progressive &ndash; camps for indoctrination, which in essence is what they have become?&rdquo; he asked.</p>
<p>He warned that schools are engaging in &ldquo;the intentional training of students to dislike, to actually disdain America&rdquo; and &ldquo;encouraging students to freely experiment with all forms of sexuality, forcefully defend issues like abortion and homosexuality and also just encouraging students to become cultural advocates for political correctness, and there&rsquo;s no tolerance for political incorrectness.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s the push for relativism, for globalization, for environmental agendas, the green agendas and tolerance for everybody,&rdquo; he continued. &ldquo;All of this stuff is now being pushed upon children in the public school system.&rdquo;</p>
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Miranda BlueAnti-GayC4Election 2014EnvironmentEquality For AllGeorgiaJody HicePublic EducationFighting the Right48737Wed, 22 Oct 2014 09:43:09 -0500EnvironmentPat Robertson Thinks Cutting Air Pollution Won't Prevent Asthma Attacks, But Watching '700 Club' Canhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-thinks-cutting-air-pollution-wont-prevent-asthma-attacks-watching-700-club-can
<p>In response to new EPA rules cutting carbon emissions, Pat Robertson mocked President Obama and EPA officials as &ldquo;highly motivated zealots&rdquo; who &ldquo;worship the environment and worship climate.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;The inmates have taken over the asylum,&rdquo; the &ldquo;700 Club&rdquo; host <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW-k2_cfKFI&feature=youtu.be">said</a> today. &ldquo;There seems to be no relationship to actual, on ground activity.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Despite evidence that air pollution is linked to<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2013/02/18/researchers-prove-air-pollution-causes-heart-attacks/">heart attacks</a> and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cdc.gov/NCEH/airpollution/">respiratory diseases like asthma</a>, Robertson mocked Obama for claiming that reducing pollutants would <a href="http://gawker.com/obama-to-announce-30-percent-cut-to-u-s-carbon-emissio-1584694293">reduce asthma attacks and save lives</a>: &ldquo;Maybe he has a touch with the divine somehow.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>And why shouldn&rsquo;t Robertson feel that way?</p>
<p>Instead of working to reduce air pollution, why doesn&rsquo;t Obama just have everyone watch the &ldquo;700 Club,&rdquo; where Robertson will <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz2ijf_qkw8">cure his viewers of asthma</a>.</p>
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Brian Tashman700 ClubC4Climate changeclimate change denialismEnvironmentPat Robertson Christian Broadcasting NetworkFighting the Right47042Tue, 03 Jun 2014 10:30:46 -0500EnvironmentTruth In Action Ministries Film Decries Climate Scientists As Idolaters And Communistshttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/truth-action-ministries-film-decries-climate-scientists-idolaters-and-communists
<p>Truth In Action Ministries, which <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/truth-action-america-turning-nazi-germany">has</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/coral-ridge-exposes-americas-descent-socialism">released</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/truth-action-ministries-film-warns-gays-puts-boys-serious-risk">several</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-activists-warn-parents-against-sending-students-communist-atheist-gay-public">over</a>-<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-defends-criminalization-homosexuality-judgment-paganization">the</a>-<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/conservative-activists-liken-irs-rules-churches-nazi-germany">top</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/truth-in-action-lists-glee-evils-september-hitler">films</a> (<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-titanic-radical-homosexual-agenda">including one likening the rise of gay rights to the sinking of the Titanic</a>), in its <a href="http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=cd47cf2b58ae89c48e0c22cbe&id=a177495a56">latest project</a> takes on the &ldquo;religion&rdquo; of environmentalism and climate science. The film closely resembles &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beware-green-dragon">Resisting the Green Dragon</a>,&rdquo; the 2010 &ldquo;documentary&rdquo; in which Religious Right activists unironically accused environmentalists of religious fanaticism.</p>
<p>In the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t4ggc02KcI&feature=youtu.be">new film from Truth In Action</a>, formerly known as Coral Ridge Ministries, Southern Baptist Convention official Richard Land describes environmentalists as &ldquo;watermelons&rdquo; who are &ldquo;green on the outside and pink on the inside.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Environmentalism has become a religion,&rdquo; Land says. &ldquo;These are recycled communists, recycled socialists, recycled collectivists who are trying to use a flawed theory of environmentalism to bring about the collectivist society they were unable to bring about politically through socialism and through communism.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe, also interviewed for the film, accuses environmentalists of &ldquo;worshiping the environment&rdquo; instead of God.</p>
<p>Truth In Action Ministries host John Rabe, meanwhile, warns that policies targeting climate change could lead to the return of communist dictatorships that left &ldquo;over 100 million people killed.&rdquo;</p>
<p>He also accuses scientists who are working on climate issues of having a &ldquo;pretention to omniscience&rdquo; and committing idolatry: &ldquo;One of the ways we can commit idolatry is by substituting ourselves as the creature for God, that&rsquo;s what many of these scientists and bureaucrats are trying to do.&rdquo;</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t4ggc02KcI&feature=youtu.be">Watch highlights here:</a></p>
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Brian TashmanC4Climate changeclimate change denialismEnvironmentJames InhofeJerry NewcombeJohn RabeRichard Land Truth In Action MinistriesFighting the Right46657Mon, 28 Apr 2014 14:15:14 -0500EnvironmentCWA: Environmental Protection 'The Most Dangerous Agenda On Earth'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/cwa-environmental-protection-most-dangerous-agenda-earth
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<p>Concerned Women for America&rsquo;s Joseph Rossell <a href="http://www.cwalac.org/cwblog/?p=1568">warns </a>in a blog post last week that environmental protection efforts represent &ldquo;an incredibly evil set of values,&rdquo; if not &ldquo;the most dangerous agenda on earth.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Quoting Margaret Sanger and Paul Ehrlich&rsquo;s warnings about overpopulation, Rossell writes that environmentalists back a &ldquo;vile&rdquo; and &ldquo;highly dangerous ideology&rdquo; that &ldquo;may very well be the most anti-human, anti-life agenda on the planet.&rdquo;</p>
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What do you think of when you hear the term &ldquo;environmentalism&rdquo;? For most people, the word probably brings to mind images of harmless hippies out to curb pollution and encourage recycling.<br />
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But the reality is much more sinister. What most people don&rsquo;t realize is that environmentalism may very well be the most anti-human, anti-life agenda on the planet. Humans are seen as a blight on the world, population levels are considered far too high, and it is believed necessary to dramatically reduce the number of people globally through brutal methods (including sterilization and abortion).<br />
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Environmentalism is not benign; it is a highly dangerous ideology. The individuals quoted above are far from obscure within the movement; they are rather mainstream environmentalists. Their vile beliefs are not simply being repeated in ivory towers, but are increasingly infiltrating public policy through a burgeoning regulatory system. These views are also gaining ground in American school systems, thanks in part to initiatives like Common Core, which promotes texts involving these themes.<br />
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Christ warns His followers, &ldquo;Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep&rsquo;s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves&rdquo; (Matthew 7:15). Environmentalism is similarly deceptive, requiring us to employ spiritual discernment. Although it may seem outwardly attractive, underneath environmentalism&rsquo;s glistening veneer of social justice is actually an incredibly evil set of values.</blockquote>
<p>In 2010, Wendy Wright, then the president of CWA, was <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beware-green-dragon">featured </a>alongside other Religious Right figures in a &ldquo;documentary&rdquo; about how environmental movement is a &ldquo;Green Dragon&rdquo; based on myths and falsehoods.</p>
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Brian TashmanC4EnvironmentenvironmentalismConcerned Women for AmericaFighting the Right44273Tue, 17 Sep 2013 11:55:31 -0500EnvironmentBeck: 'If Anyone Does Anything In This Company Because Of Global Warming, They're Fired'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beck-if-anyone-does-anything-company-because-global-warming-theyre-fired
<p>Outraged that employees in his organization had begun placing recycling bins throughout The Blaze's headquarters and studio and replaced individual water bottles with a water cooler, Glenn Beck brought the Vice President of Studio Operations <a href="http://www.video.theblaze.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=29910975">onto his radio program today</a> to explain why these changes were taking place.</p>
<p>When she claimed that doing so was saving the company money, Beck not only didn't buy it but also didn't really care and instead issued a new company-wide policy that any employee who buys a compact fluorescent light bulb when non-CFL options are available will be fired.</p>
<p>"Global warming is a pile of crap," <a href="http://youtu.be/Gx72EuSp4tI">Beck declared</a>, adding that he would be issuing a memo informing everyone that "if anyone does anything in this company because of global warming, they're fired":</p>
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Kyle MantylaEnvironmentC3Glenn BeckFighting the Right44034Wed, 21 Aug 2013 13:52:26 -0500Environment700 Club: Climate Change Helps Environment and Civilization, SUV Owners Treated Like Witcheshttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/700-club-climate-change-helps-environment-and-civilization-suv-owners-treated-witches
<p>On the <em>700 Club</em> today, Pat Robertson followed a segment mocking &ldquo;climatism&rdquo; with an interview with Steve Goreham of the climate change denying Heartland Institute. Goreham is not a climate scientist (his <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/steve-goreham">degree is in electrical engineering</a>) and the Heartland Institute regularly&nbsp;<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/02/15/426174/anti-science-blogger-anthony-watts-confirms-heartland-weather-stations-project/">pushes</a> <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2011/07/07/heartland-institutes-climate-contrarians-enjoy/185131">misinformation</a> about climate change.</p>
<p>Richard Littlemore <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-insider-exposes-institute-s-budget-and-strategy">points out</a> that <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute-exposed-internal-documents-unmask-heart-climate-denial-machine">internal Heartland documents</a> reveal that &ldquo;Heartland advocates against responsible climate mitigation and then uses that advocacy to raise money from oil companies and &lsquo;other corporations whose interests are threatened by climate policies.&rsquo;&rdquo; The group is behind an effort to <a href="http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2012/02/16/leaked-heartland-institute-documents/">promote climate change denialism in schools</a> and a billboard campaign <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/11/28/meet-the-climate-denial-machine/191545#heartland">likening climate scientists to mass murderers</a>.</p>
<p>Robertson, a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-flip-flops-and-denies-climate-change">climate change denier</a> who has without a hint of irony criticized climate scientists as &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-dismisses-nutty-true-believer-climate-scientists">nutty</a>&rdquo; and &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-lashes-out-doctrinaire-environmentalist-fanatics">fanatics</a>,&rdquo; unsurprisingly ate up Goreham&rsquo;s claims that humans play no role in climate change and that higher CO2 levels help the environment.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Warmer periods have actually been better for civilizations,&rdquo; Goreham argued. &ldquo;We have less extreme weather, we have longer growing seasons and we have more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere now, which is actually greening the planet.&rdquo; &ldquo;That&rsquo;s good!&rdquo; Robertson replied.</p>
<p>Goreham lamented that SUV owners and power company officials may be treated like witches who were burnt at the stake in the Middle Ages: &ldquo;There were many people in the Middle Ages that were blamed for causing the cold temperatures and the poor crops and they labeled them witches, they burned them. And so today we blame it on our neighbor&rsquo;s SUV or a power plant, it&rsquo;s a little bit of a medieval thing.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Let&rsquo;s hope we don&rsquo;t burn the officials of VEPCO,&rdquo; Robertson joked, referring to the Virginia Electric and Power Company.</p>
<p>Later, Goreham said that people in New York, San Francisco and Bangladesh should be &ldquo;rejoicing&rdquo; about warming as &ldquo;all the climate models are wrong.&rdquo;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKa11YSaonY&feature=youtu.be">Watch:</a></p>
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Brian Tashman700 ClubC4climate change denialismEnvironmentPat Robertson The Heartland InstituteChristian Broadcasting NetworkFighting the Right43766Thu, 25 Jul 2013 11:50:36 -0500EnvironmentCathie Adams: UN Climate Change Treaty Is the New World Orderhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/cathie-adams-un-climate-change-treaty-new-world-order
<p>Yesterday, Cathie Adams, the <a href="http://www.texaseagle.org/about-us">president</a> of the Texas Eagle Forum, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MF2aZyiKFs">delivered a presentation</a> to the Southeast Texas Tea Party on the dangers of environmentalism and Agenda 21 in which she made the case that the environmental movement is like a watermelon: "green on the outside and Marxist red on the inside."</p>
<p>Adams <a href="http://youtu.be/UYylrESyMwo">said</a> that environmentalists are blasphemers because "these people worship the creation instead of the Creator" and that is why "our children are being taught now in public schools to capitalize the "E" of "Earth"; it is an object of worship."</p>
<p>When Adams later asked rhetorically why President George H.W. Bush went to Brazil in 1992 to sign the United Nations Climate Change convention, an audience member blurted out that he did so because "he's a traitor!" which prompted Adams to declare that "this climate change treaty is exactly the New World Order":</p>
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Kyle MantylaCathie AdamsEnvironmentTexas Eagle ForumC3Fighting the Right42702Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:13:39 -0500EnvironmentRobertson: Environmentalists May Cause the Deaths of 'A Couple Billion People'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-environmentalists-may-cause-deaths-couple-billion-people
<p>Pat Robertson has been on the attack <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-lashes-out-doctrinaire-environmentalist-fanatics">against</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-dismisses-nutty-true-believer-climate-scientists">environmentalists</a> as of late, and yesterday the <em>700 Club</em> host warned that environmentalist policies may cause billions of people to die.</p>
<p>Robertson <a href="http://www.cbn.com/tv/2241988016001">maintained</a> that the &ldquo;out of control&rdquo; Environmental Protection Agency &ldquo;has been run by doctrinaire leftists&rdquo; who are attacking &ldquo;American industry, especially fossil fuels.&rdquo;</p>
<p>After he went on a rant about new rules impacting coal power plants, Robertson said that the ultimate &ldquo;goal&rdquo; of the environmental movement is to create &ldquo;a more pastoral, rural kind of existence and if a couple billion people around the globe die from starvation because of it that&rsquo;s just tough luck.&rdquo;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a73FGFz4oSo&feature=youtu.be">Watch:</a></p>
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Brian Tashman700 ClubEnvironmentPat Robertson C3Christian Broadcasting NetworkFighting the Right42536Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:45:45 -0500EnvironmentBeisner Explains Why Environmentalism Represents the 'Greatest Threat to Western Civilization'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beisner-explains-why-environmentalism-represents-greatest-threat-western-civilization
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<p>Yesterday, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beisner-hurricane-sandy-was-sent-god-matter-grace">Dr</a>. Calvin Beisner of the Cornwall Alliance <a href="http://janetmefferdpremium.com/2013/03/18/janet-mefferd-radio-show-20130318-hr-3/">appeared on</a> Janet Mefferd's radio program where he explained that the modern environmental movement represents "the greatest threat to Western civilization" because it combines "the utopian vision of Marxism, the scientific facade of secular humanism, and the religious fanaticism of jihad" into a pseudo-religion that undermines Christianity:</p>
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<p><strong>Mefferd</strong>: That seems like, maybe to some people, like hyperbole Dr. Beisner, but why do you think that that's the case?</p>
<p><strong>Beisner</strong>: Well, let me just give you four simple, direct reasons.</p>
<p>First, because unlike the Soviet Union and its satellites in the Cold War and unlike Islamic jihad today which were, or are, external and clearly recognized as enemies by the overwhelming majority of people in the free world, environmentalism is internal and thought by most to be friend, not foe.</p>
<p>Second, because unlike arid and nihilistic secular humanism, environmentalism speaks to the inherent spiritual yearnings of human souls and it provides plausible answers to dogged questions about how we got here and what causes suffering and how suffering might come to an end.</p>
<p>Third, because environmentalism incorporates the strengths of all three of those other threats: the utopian vision of Marxism, the scientific facade of secular humanism, and the religious fanaticism of jihad.</p>
<p>And fourth, finally, because environmentalism encompasses all the vague spiritualities that have frankly overwhelmed secular humanism in the West and now threaten the Christian faith as so many people now take to referring to themselves as "oh well, I'm spiritual but not religious," which basically means they are all involved in designer religion.</p>
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Kyle MantylaEnvironmentJanet MefferdC3Cornwall AllianceFighting the RightCalvin Beisner42495Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:51:11 -0500EnvironmentRobertson Lashes Out at 'Doctrinaire' Environmentalist 'Fanatics'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-lashes-out-doctrinaire-environmentalist-fanatics
<p>Televangelist Pat Robertson is <a href="https://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/politics/2013/March/Obama-EPA-Pick-Faces-Confirmation-Battle/">joining other conservatives</a> in attacking Gina McCarthy, President Obama&rsquo;s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. After <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-dismisses-nutty-true-believer-climate-scientists">criticizing</a> climate change scientists as &ldquo;nutty&rdquo; and &ldquo;true believer&rdquo; ideologues last month, Robertson once again engaged in projection today on the <em>700 Club</em> as he warned that environmentalist &ldquo;crazies&rdquo; are &ldquo;unreasonable&rdquo; religious &ldquo;fanatics&rdquo; who are too &ldquo;doctrinaire.&rdquo;</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nATQeU3HDmo&feature=youtu.be">Watch:</a></p>
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Brian Tashman700 ClubEnvironmentenvironmentalismPat Robertson C3Fighting the Right42368Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:52:53 -0500EnvironmentRobertson Dismisses 'Nutty,' 'True Believer' Climate Scientistshttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-dismisses-nutty-true-believer-climate-scientists
<p>Televangelist Pat Robertson has, like so many on the Right, turned very quickly from advocating awareness of climate change to <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-flip-flops-and-denies-climate-change">denying that it exists at all</a>. On today&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.cbn.com/tv/2180509142001"><em>700 Club</em></a>, Robertson laughs off a recent <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2013/02/18/climate-contradiction-less-snow-more-blizzards/1927893/">Princeton University study</a> that found that climate change is increasing the rate of blizzards while leading to a drop in total snowfall.</p>
<p>Without a hint of self-awareness, Robertson claims that climate scientists are simply elitist ideologues who will hold onto their beliefs in global warming no matter what.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Only in Princeton would people say nutty things like that,&rdquo; Robertson <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIQezFYTZ0M">said</a>. &ldquo;You know, they get to be PhDs and they wonder where they&rsquo;ve studied and learned all these things. But I tell you, if you&rsquo;re a true believer bad things will happen because you see them coming.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Among the &ldquo;nutty&rdquo; professors Robertson attacks is Princeton geosciences expert <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/step/people/faculty/michael-oppenheimer/">Michael Oppenheimer</a>, interviewed earlier in the program, who served in the Nobel Prize-winning International Panel on Climate Change.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIQezFYTZ0M">Watch:</a></p>
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Brian Tashman700 ClubClimate changeclimate change denialismEnvironmentPat Robertson C3Christian Broadcasting NetworkFighting the Right42266Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:15:28 -0500EnvironmentFischer & Beisner Say That Not Using Fossil Fuels is an Insult to Godhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-beisner-say-not-using-fossil-fuels-insult-god
<p>Earlier this month, the Religious Right's favorite climate change-denying "expert," Calvin Beisner of the Cornwall Alliance, appeared on American Family Radio where <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beisner-belief-climate-change-insult-god">he declared</a> that believing in climate change "is an insult to God." &nbsp;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKKGEcWNtJo">Yesterday</a>, when he joined Bryan Fischer on "Focal Point" for yet another discussion about the "myth" of global warming, both he and Fischer <a href="http://youtu.be/MpDd_Kq_vRk">declared</a> that failure to use coal, oil, and natural gas is an insulting rejection of the gifts that God has given to us - gifts which, incidentally, He buried deep in the earth because He delights in our search for and discovery of them:</p> <p align="center"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/MpDd_Kq_vRk?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>Kyle MantylaAmerican Family Association EnvironmentC3Cornwall AllianceFighting the RightBryan FischerCalvin Beisner41648Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:26:18 -0500EnvironmentBeisner: Belief in Climate Change 'is an Insult to God'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beisner-belief-climate-change-insult-god
<p>Cal Beisner of the Cornwall Alliance is the Religious Right's <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/calvin-beisner">favorite</a> anti-climate change "<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beware-green-dragon">expert</a>" despite the fact that his&nbsp;academic credentials are limited to a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/santorum-and-green-dragon-faith-based-attacks-environmentalism-nothing-new-religious-right">doctorate in Scottish History</a>. &nbsp;While appearing on AFA's "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boKBRD1u9GA">Today's Issues</a>" radio program today, Beisner <a href="http://youtu.be/r6Q6vkxs3XQ">provided</a> the most concise explanation of why Christians cannot believe in climate change when he declared that the entire theory rests on the assumption that the earth is an extremely fragile place, which conflicts with the Biblical view that the earth was built by God for man's use.</p>
<p>Therefore, to believe in climate change "really is an insult to God" ... and it will eventually lead to tyranny:</p>
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<p>David Horowitz talked to Frank Gaffney today on <em><a href="http://www.securefreedomradio.org/2012/11/07/the-future-is-now/">Secure Freedom Radio</a></em> about what to expect in President Obama&rsquo;s second term, where Horowitz warned that while the government through health care reform can &ldquo;control your health, now they&rsquo;re going to control your environment.&rdquo; He said that the movement for environmental protection is America&rsquo;s &ldquo;biggest threat&rdquo; because it is working with Obama to impose government &ldquo;control over everybody&rsquo;s life&rdquo; under the excuse of preventing climate change, &ldquo;the chimera of the left.&rdquo; He even brought up the <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/mar/30/house-republicans/GOP-full-of-hot-air-about-Obamas-light-switch-tax/">debunked claim</a> that Obama will enforce a <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/mar/30/house-republicans/GOP-full-of-hot-air-about-Obamas-light-switch-tax/">light switch tax</a>.</p>
<p>The far-right author demanded that Republicans read his book <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Radicals-Portraits-Destructive-David-Horowitz/dp/1596988126">Radicals: Portraits of a Destructive Passion</a></em> and learn that Obama is following the playbook of Saul Alinsky. Horowitz details how Saul Alinsky came up with the absolutely novel idea that politicians should make compromises, try to pass their policy agenda when they can and run negative advertisements against their opponents.</p>
<p>Horowitz also seems to be under the impression that Romney did not respond to any of the negative ads against him and did not go negative against Obama. &ldquo;Character assassination is the middle name of every Democratic political operative,&rdquo; Horowitz maintained, &ldquo;What is wrong with Republicans that they don&rsquo;t understand that this is a war? And the other side is playing for keeps.&rdquo;</p>
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<blockquote> <strong>Horowitz</strong>: Alinsky advised, do what&rsquo;s possible, not your ideal, make compromises, which Obama has done and he&rsquo;s turned off some of the left because of it. SO he&rsquo;s going to continue to fund the left with taxpayer money, that&rsquo;s a given, that&rsquo;s where the Stimulus money went, it went to the unions, he&rsquo;s going to fund the unions. He&rsquo;s going to pursue this other chimera of the left, the climate change, because it means control over energy policies. They actually want to control when you turn on your light switch, they want to tax you for the energy that you use. I have to tell you, this is the biggest threat, that environmental movement. That&rsquo;s the powerful movement because it means control over everybody&rsquo;s life. They won Obamacare and control your health, now they&rsquo;re going to control your environment.<br />
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<strong>Gaffney</strong>: And energy. David, what would you recommend to the loyal opposition as to what it should be doing to contend with this radical and his agenda for the next four years?<br />
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<strong>Horowitz</strong>: Read my book. The big problem here is conservatives understand policy issues very well, they&rsquo;re wonks like Paul Ryan. Romney by the way could have won this election if he had made Rubio his vice presidential candidate, as much as I admire Paul Ryan, it was Rubio we should&rsquo;ve picked for the politics of it. But the main thing is you have to understand your enemy, it&rsquo;s not good enough to do the policy, people never get to hear the policies. Romney never appeared to half the electorate, what appeared were all those negative campaign ads and that&rsquo;s just what politics is about. You have got to understand how dedicated and vicious your opponents are. Stop calling them liberals and hopefully some people will read my book because my book is portraits of threes people so you understand who they are.<br />
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<strong>Gaffney</strong>: Right. One of the things that just jumps off of the pages is something that we saw play out, right out of Saul Alinsky&rsquo;s playbook, I think it was &ldquo;Rules for Radicals #11,&rdquo; in which he said, select a target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it. If that wasn&rsquo;t the script for taking down Mitt Romney I don&rsquo;t know what was. Horowitz: Yes. Character assassination is the middle name of every Democratic political operative, and everybody who is a conservative knows it, we&rsquo;ve all been victims of it. It&rsquo;s not a secret, everybody said, everybody said, this will be the dirtiest campaign ever and Obama has nothing to run on, he has to demonize Romney. And when he did that, did the Romney campaign respond? No. What is wrong with Republicans that they don&rsquo;t understand that this is a war?<br />
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<strong>Gaffney</strong>: They have to read your book, that&rsquo;s for sure. <br />
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<strong>Horowitz</strong>: And the other side is playing for keeps. </blockquote>Brian TashmanC4EnvironmentFrank Gaffney Center for Security Policy David Horowitz Fighting the Right41512Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:30:08 -0500EnvironmentFischer and Beisner Praise Ryan's 'Biblical View of the Environment'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-beisner-ryan-biblical-environment
<p>American Family Association&rsquo;s Bryan Fischer today was joined by <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/rww-in-focus/the-green-dragon-slayers-how-the-religious-right-and-the-corporate-right-are-joining-fo#relgpower">pro-corporate, anti-environmental activist Cal Beisner </a>on <em>Focal Point</em> to discuss Rep. Paul Ryan&rsquo;s <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/08/11/677051/meet-paul-ryan-climate-denier-conspiracy-theorist-koch-acolyte/">egregious record on environmental protection</a>. The two <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAGPHpEE2qg&feature=youtu.be">celebrated</a> his votes against the EPA and climate change legislation as signs that he has a &ldquo;sane, objective and biblical or evangelical understanding of man&rsquo;s relationship with the environment. &ldquo;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAGPHpEE2qg&feature=youtu.be">Paul Ryan seems to get it</a>,&rdquo; Fischer said, and Beisner applauded Ryan&rsquo;s voting record &ldquo;fits well with the biblical understanding&rdquo; of the environment, which for them <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/rww-in-focus/the-green-dragon-slayers-how-the-religious-right-and-the-corporate-right-are-joining-fo#planningenv">means </a>that there should be few if any restrictions on environmental exploitation. Later, Beisner <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/rww-in-focus/the-green-dragon-slayers-how-the-religious-right-and-the-corporate-right-are-joining-fo#praise">repeated his bogus charge</a> that increased carbon dioxide levels and climate change will help the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/climate-models-that-predict-more-droughts-win-further-scientific-support/2012/08/13/cb4e3108-e16f-11e1-ae7f-d2a13e249eb2_story.html">environment</a> and the <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/rww-in-focus/the-green-dragon-slayers-how-the-religious-right-and-the-corporate-right-are-joining-fo#crocodile">poor</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAGPHpEE2qg&feature=youtu.be">Watch:</a></p>
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<blockquote><strong>Fischer</strong>: It seems like we&rsquo;ve got another clear differential when it comes to a sane, objective and biblical or evangelical understanding of man&rsquo;s relationship with the environment. Paul Ryan seems to get ii and the other team doesn&rsquo;t. So that would be potentially very good news for those of us that care about seeing a biblical view of the environment in public policy.<br />
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<strong>Beisner</strong>: Yes it would. Ryan&rsquo;s understanding I think fits well with the biblical understanding that God made man in His image to be creative and productive as He is, to fill and to rule the earth. Not to abuse the earth, not to rape the land so to speak as many environmentalists talk, but rather to increase its fruitfulness, its beauty and its safety to the glory of God and the benefit of our neighbors. I think that really underlies the comments that Ryan has made on these issues through the years and it comes I think from his solidly Christian worldview background.<br />
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<strong>Beisner</strong>: Most Americans do not see any real purpose in tight restrictions on CO2 admissions. Many Americans actually remembered what they learned way back in seventh and eighth grade biology class, mainly that carbon dioxide is plant food. So the more of that there is in the air the more the crops grow and the cheaper the food is around the world, this actually helps especially the poor. </blockquote>Brian TashmanAmerican Family Association C4Environmentgreen dragonPaul RyanCornwall AllianceFighting the RightBryan FischerCalvin Beisner40729Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:50:11 -0500EnvironmentCal Beisner Rallies the Troops to Fight the 'Spiritual World War'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/cal-beisner-rallies-troop-fight-spiritual-world-war
<p>The Cornwall Alliance's Cal Beisner returned to Janet Parshall's radio program <a href="http://www.moodyradio.org/brd_ProgramDetail.aspx?id=92332">yesterday</a> to continue their <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beware-green-dragon">anti-environmentalism collaborations</a> and promote his latest effort called <a href="http://www.inhisimage2012.org/">In His Image 2012</a> which seeks to "completely reshape the way Americans, and then people around the world, think of human beings and our role on Earth &ndash; to reassert the sanctity of human life and sexuality, the beauty and centrality of marriage, the goodness of human multiplication, and the dignity of human work and godly dominion over the Earth."</p>
<p>As Beisner explained, this new effort is necessary to help Christians understand that Judeo-Christian civilization is facing a "spiritual world war"&nbsp;being waged by proponents of Darwinsim, gay rights, and&nbsp;environmentalism, all of which are "rooted in the rejection of the fundamental Biblical doctrines of God and humanity":</p>
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<p>This is the launch of what we intend to be a multi-year educational program to help people to understand what are the common roots behind a lot of the challenges that the Christian faith and frankly the whole Judeo-Christian civilization faces.</p>
<p>Whether it's naturalistic Darwinism with the eugenics and population control and government family-planning programs that come out of it with coerced sterilization and abortion and euthanasia. Or free-sex, no-fault divorce, gender confusion, homosexual so-called marriage, polygamy and polyamory. Or radical environmentalism, animal rights, ecosystem rights and Gaia worship. Or the war on abundant, affordable, reliable energy. Or ever-tightening environmental regulations at federal and state levels. Or eco-imperialist rules that are forced on poor nations, and more.</p>
<p>What we recognize is that all of these are rooted in the rejection of the fundamental biblical doctrines of God and humanity. All these different threats are not isolated; they're different parts of a spiritual world war. It's not primarily a political war, it's certainly not primarily a military war, it's a spiritual world war and we as Christians have got to recognize that spiritual enemy and then bring spiritual weapons into battle against that.</p>
</blockquote>Kyle MantylaEnvironmentC3Cornwall AllianceFighting the RightCalvin Beisner40671Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:25:53 -0500EnvironmentBeisner: Pixar's 'Brave' is Part of Satanic Plot to Undermine God's Plan for Mankindhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beisner-pixars-brave-part-satanic-plot-undermine-gods-plan-mankind
<p>Yesterday, Cal Beisner of the Cornwall Alliance was a guest on <a href="http://www.afa.net/Radio/show.aspx?id=2147490466&tab=video&video=2147524426">Bryan Fischer's radio program</a> where he revealed that God had given him an insight that Satan was engaged in a systematic attack against God's mandate for humanity as set out in <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+1%3A27-28&version=NIV">Genesis 1:&nbsp;27-28</a>.</p>
<p>As Beisner <a href="http://youtu.be/zy2TQTaXt7c">explained</a>, God's created us in His image and made us male and female and commanded us to "be fruitful and multiply" and take dominion over the earth.&nbsp; Since Satan cannot attack God directly, he instead attacks God's representatives (mankind)&nbsp;by undermining our beliefs in these very principles, which is why we tolerate things like abortion and homosexuality and environmentalism, all of which are aimed at slowing population growth ... oh, and movies like Pixar's "Brave":</p>
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<p>Tom DeWeese of the American Policy Center, the group which <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/tom-deweese">blends</a> typical right-wing warnings about looming one world government with conspiracies about efforts to protect the environment, on Monday&rsquo;s edition of <em><a href="http://www.vcyamerica.org/blog/2012/06/11/rio-20-summit">Crosstalk</a> </em>claimed that carbon dioxide (CO2) is not a threat to humanity or the earth at large because &ldquo;trees give off carbon dioxide; all the plants around us give it off.&rdquo; In fact, DeWeese said the earth may not have enough CO2, and called people who believe in human-influenced climate change &ldquo;idiots.&rdquo;</p>
<p>However, trees and plants <em>break down</em> CO2 as part of photosynthesis and therefore play an <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110810093835.htm">important role</a> in combating the <a href="http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/">escalating rates of CO2 in the atmosphere</a>. Deforestation, on the other hand, <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070511100918.htm">leads to increased rates of CO2</a>.</p>
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<blockquote> <strong>DeWeese</strong>: The bottom line is, CO2 is not a poison to human beings, CO2 is not affecting the atmosphere, there is absolutely no evidence, I can say this with absolute confidence, there is no evidence of man-made global warming causing problems. We are actually going through a cooling period right now, which is going to increase over the next few years, it&rsquo;s cyclical, it happens. I used to have a weatherman in my hometown who started the weather by saying &lsquo;whether it&rsquo;s cold or whether it&rsquo;s hot, we&rsquo;ll always have weather, whether or not&rsquo; and that&rsquo;s exactly what this is. Every time we have a dry season or we have strong hurricanes or we have a really hot summer or a mild winter, these idiots start this drumbeat again, &lsquo;global warming, see here&rsquo;s what it is.&rsquo; They tried to say that this year is the warmest on record, it&rsquo;s not. They will just keep coming up with his stuff, it&rsquo;s just craziness. <br />
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Trees give off carbon dioxide; all the plants around us give it off. The fact is some scientists have done some studies saying we&rsquo;ve got a carbon dioxide shortage right now. That then causes plants to die, that causes environmental damage.</blockquote>
<p>While one Religious Right writer last week <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-author-claims-environmentalism-will-destroy-america-introduce-fascist-tyrann">claimed</a> that the environmental movement came from Nazi Germany, DeWeese told host Jim Schneider of VCY America that environmentalism actually came from communist leaders who were looking for a new way to destroy freedom after the fall of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc:</p>
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<blockquote> <strong>Schneider</strong>: Aren&rsquo;t we really talking about a worldwide, socialistic plan with this?<br />
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<strong>DeWeese</strong>: Absolutely, there is nothing else, that&rsquo;s what it&rsquo;s about. We wouldn&rsquo;t give up our liberties in America when we were facing the Cold War and the Soviet Union and they tried to make the argument that Marx was superior, we wouldn&rsquo;t give up our liberties then. When Communism fell back in the beginning of the 1990s, all these leaders of these countries, these communist countries and some of the organizations connected to them went into the environmental movement and they got us to start to sacrifice our liberties with the threat of environmental Armageddon. These Chicken Little scares that &lsquo;the world is coming to an end, it&rsquo;s selfish for you to want to have your job, build your home and have your family when the earth is going to come to an end, there is nothing you can do, you can&rsquo;t escape.&rsquo; That&rsquo;s been the argument all this time. There is no science to it. There is no science that supports this environmental Armageddon, these scare tactics that they are using but they continue to do it so that&rsquo;s what we&rsquo;re up against here.<br />
</blockquote>Brian Tashmanclimate change denialismEnvironmentTom DeWeeseVoice of Christian Youth America (VCY America) C3Fighting the Right40190Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:30:55 -0500EnvironmentReligious Right Author Claims Environmentalism Will Destroy America, Introduce Fascist Tyrannyhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-author-claims-environmentalism-will-destroy-america-introduce-fascist-tyrann
<p>Janet Parshall in 2010 <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beware-green-dragon">narrated</a> a right-wing &ldquo;documentary&rdquo; about <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beware-green-dragon">the &ldquo;Green Dragon&rdquo; menace</a>, where Religious Right activists said that environmentalists do not believe in science but superstition, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/david-barton-environment-abortion-and-michael-vick">calling</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/santorum-and-green-dragon-faith-based-attacks-environmentalism-nothing-new-religious-right">environmentalism</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-environmental-movement-fundamentally-anti-human-and-satanic">its</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beisner-depraved-environmental-movement-models-satan">own</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/wildmon-efforts-prevent-human-influenced-climate-change-are-anti-christian">anti-Christian</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-beisner-describe-doctrines-religion-environmentalism">religion</a>. Yesterday, Parshall&rsquo;s radio show was devoted to exposing the supposedly sinister origins of environmental science with guest Mark Musser, whose works include: &ldquo;<a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/02/the_nazi_origins_of_apocalypti.html">The Nazi Origins of Apocalyptic Global Warming Theory</a>&rdquo;; &ldquo;<a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/01/green_lebensraum_the_nazi_roots_of_sustainable_development.html">Green Lebensraum: The Nazi Roots of Sustainable Development</a>&rdquo;; &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rmarkmusser.com/enviro.asp">Enviro-Baalism-Fascism</a>&rdquo; and &ldquo;<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Nazi-Oaks-Mark-Musser/dp/1597551929">Nazi Oaks: The Green Sacrificial Offering of the Judeo-Christian Worldview in the Holocaust</a>.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Essentially, Musser&rsquo;s main argument on Parshall&rsquo;s program was that evolution, animal rights and environmentalism were the main forces behind Nazi thought and dehumanization of non-Aryan groups. He told Parshall that environmentalism inevitably leads to fascism and tyranny, and warns that the U.S. may be destroyed like ancient Israel if American society embraces environmentalism:</p>
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<blockquote> With environmentalism, especially the radical version of it&mdash;you know we used to have conservationism in America with Teddy Roosevelt and these people&mdash;but now environmentalism has taken over and nature is the most important thing. So you have to adjust everything to nature. Nature is viewed as a holistic tyrant, so to speak, and holism really teaches tyranny. Fascism is all connected here. You have to bow everything to nature&rsquo;s holistic inter-relatedness and you can&rsquo;t buck anything with regards to what nature does. This is the problem with environmentalism and why it&rsquo;s so dangerous, because it becomes your tyrant. <br />
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Israel would be the example of this originally, as they were commanded to go in and subdue the promise land and fill it and that&rsquo;s what they did and for a while it was a good land, then these other things came in, environmentalism came in and destroyed their culture, what I call the Baalism, the nature worship, instead of worshiping the Creator they worshiped nature and this led to the destruction of their society. I think the same things are happening in our own country today too. We have this nature-worship now that is infiltrating our society, infiltrating Christianity too, and it is bringing us down and it is something that people need to be wary of. There is a dark path to this whole environmental discussion that people need to know. </blockquote>Brian TashmanC4Environmentgreen dragonJanet Parshall Fighting the Right40131Tue, 05 Jun 2012 14:05:12 -0500EnvironmentFischer & Beisner Describe the Doctrines of the Religion of Environmentalismhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-beisner-describe-doctrines-religion-environmentalism
<p>On Bryan Fischer's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxpeP_PFh1c">radio program yesterday</a>, Fischer and Cal Beisner discussed how environmentalism was becoming the established religion in America.&nbsp;</p>
<p>How exactly is environmentalism a religion, you ask? Well, as <a href="http://youtu.be/rxFw_uA4u6A">Beisner explained</a>, it has its own doctrines, its own holy day (Earth Day,) its own food taboos, sacrifice rituals (recycling,) paradoxical beliefs, sacred structures (recycling bins,) and it proselytizes.&nbsp; And, as Fischer added, just like with the early church, heretics (i.e. global warming deniers like Fischer and Beisner) are punished and excommunicated:</p>
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<p>The number of right-wing conspiracy theories relating to President Obama, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/kamal-saleem-obama-muslim-fascist">Islam</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/chuck-norris%E2%80%99s-new-project-fighting-creeping-sharia">Sharia Law</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gheen-violence-may-be-needed-stop-obamas-war-white-america">immigration</a>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/us/activists-fight-green-projects-seeing-un-plot.html?pagewanted=all">Agenda 21</a> and the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/liberty-counsel-america-cursed-and-god-will-judge-us-too-much-debt">debt</a> seems to be growing exponentially&hellip;but finally now there is one conspiracy theory that brings them all together.</p>
<p>Avi Lipkin, who on <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/obamas-secret-muslim-plot">speaking tours in churches and synagogues across America</a> says he learned secret information from his wife, whom he claims is an Israel intelligence officer. On <a href="http://vcyamerica.org/blog/2012/05/15/obamas-new-czar-anti-israel"><em>Crosstalk</em></a> with Vic Eliason of VCY&nbsp;America, Lipkin maintained that Obama is a Saudi plant who is out to destroy Israel and the United States:</p>
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<strong>Lipkin</strong>: Obama was made a Muslim man in Indonesia by age 11. He said, &lsquo;I&rsquo;ve got health care problems, I got economic problems in America, Muslims in Egypt and Muslims in the Muslim world, be patient, I will show you when the time comes what I am going to do to Israel.&rsquo; My wife picked up other broadcasts, for example the Saudis were saying, &lsquo;we will have a Muslim in the White House in 2008.&rsquo; The Saudis also said, &lsquo;Obama has three tasks: task number 1 is to destroy the Shiite threat in Iran, task number 2 is to destroy the Jewish threat Israel, task number 3 is to destroy the great Christian Satan America and turn America into a Muslim country.&rsquo;</blockquote>
<p>Surely you&rsquo;ve heard that one before. But, you may not have known that Obama will destroy America by supporting the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in order to collapse the region&rsquo;s economy after the group persecutes the country&rsquo;s Christians, leading to a wave of Muslim immigration to the United States. Obama will then settle the &ldquo;50-100 million&rdquo; Muslim immigrants on &ldquo;lands confiscated by Agenda 21,&rdquo; the sustainable development initiative, and bring about Sharia law in the U.S.</p>
<p>Obama also built up the national debt to a point where the U.S. will need a bailout from Saudi Arabia, who will grant it with the condition that &ldquo;America will surrender its Christianity.&rdquo; Lipkin explains that God sent the Muslim immigrants to the U.S. to be &ldquo;hunters&rdquo; of Jews and Christians, forcing them to leave the U.S. and move to Israel:</p>
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<strong>Lipkin</strong>: The Muslim Brotherhood is going to end up either killing, converting to Islam or expelling the remaining Christians of Egypt. When the Christians of Egypt are gone, the economy of Egypt is gone. When the economy of Egypt is gone, the 76 Muslims who remain are going to starve to death. What do people do when they starve? They leave. Where do they go to? America. Who&rsquo;s going to bring them in? Obama. Where is he going to settle them? In the lands confiscated by Agenda 21.<br />
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<strong>Lipkin</strong>: America will be Muslim by 2016. 2016 is the eighth year of President Obama, meaning he is going to bring in 50-100 million Muslims because it is inevitable that all these Islamic countries cannot rule, they don&rsquo;t know how to rule themselves, they are completely inept, and after they kill all the Christians that remain there will not be any economy left so you&rsquo;re going to have overnight 50-100 million Muslims coming in. You cannot put them in American cities, you have got to create entire new areas populated in the United States and Canada with these Muslims.<br />
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<strong>Lipkin</strong>: Yes! So you have Agenda 21, you have Sharia law, by the way I&rsquo;m going to throw out a real wildcard now. You have all those people who talk about the American debt being insolvable, where are you going to get $14 trillion from? The answer is very simple, you don&rsquo;t think the Saudis have $14 trillion in cash? They&rsquo;ll give you the cash and they will say &lsquo;we own you now, we&rsquo;re going to take over America.&rsquo; And Americans will say, &lsquo;if we don&rsquo;t do this we&rsquo;re going to lose our economy and we&rsquo;re going to lose our dollar and everything.&rsquo; The American economic problem is not a problem if the Saudis come in and bring in their cash. The problem here is America will surrender its Christianity.<br />
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<strong>Lipkin</strong>: If and when a war breaks out in the Middle East between Israel and its neighbors then you will see 10, 20, 30 million, maybe more, 40, 50 million Muslims, some of them are going to rise up in a 9/11 type terrorist attacks and they are not afraid to die, they cherish death, and American law enforcement with all the best of intentions will not be capable of dealing with this. They are not going to kill 10 million, they are going to kill some and a lot of Jews and Christians are going to go into hiding and eventually a lot of them will eventually leave the United States and coming to Israel so I see this as a spatula, they leave by God, you have the hunters and these hunters are going to be the Muslims. I believe America will come out of this mess but it&rsquo;s going to be a very rough time, weeks, months, before the situation is brought under control. The more Muslims you have in America the more capable they will be to wreak havoc on Jews and Christians.</blockquote>
Brian TashmanAvi LipkinAgenda 21Anti-MuslimC4EnvironmentImmigrationIslamShariaVic EliasonVoice of Christian Youth America (VCY America) Fighting the Right40032Wed, 23 May 2012 11:55:05 -0500EnvironmentTalk Show Host: Karl Marx Created Climate Change to Destroy Capitalismhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/talk-show-host-karl-marx-created-climate-change-destroy-capitalism
<p>Earlier we reported that James Dobson warned that the environmental movement is a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/satanic-earth-worshiping-militant-environmentalists-are-funding-islamic-terrorism">&ldquo;Satanic&rdquo; effort to help radical Islamists</a> and Cal Beisner claimed that the movement is <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beisner-depraved-environmental-movement-models-satan">modeling itself after Satan</a>. Conservative talk show host and Eco-Tyranny author Brian Sussman appeared yesterday on <a href="http://blog.eagleforum.org/2012/05/interview-brian-sussman-eco-tyranny.html"><em>Eagle Forum Live</em></a> with Phyllis Schlafly and identified yet another sinister force behind the environmental movement. Sussman claims that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels not only created the environmental movement but also the nefarious, anti-capitalist and anti-Christian notion of man-influenced climate change. And now, Sussman says, they have a powerful disciple in the White House:</p>
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<blockquote> 1883, you had two well-known left-wing thinkers who had a pretty big audience, these were people who hated capitalism and hated Christianity as well, they wanted to liquidate Christianity, they came up with a scenario, they said, &lsquo;capitalism produces pollution and that pollution could change the climate and bring us into an ice age that would destroy all species.&rsquo; <br />
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That was 1883, they put together this wild theory to destroy capitalism by scaring people of the coming ice age. Those two thinkers were Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, this was 1883. Might I just add Phyllis, the left hasn&rsquo;t left this, first it was global cooling, then it was global warming, then it was global cooling, then it was global warming, and now it&rsquo;s just a catchall phrase known as climate change and the fact of the matter is there isn&rsquo;t substantial science to back any of these claims up. <br />
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and their ilk, they don&rsquo;t care about capitalism, they don&rsquo;t care about free market opportunities, they want a planned and controlled economy because they believe that most of us our incapable of running our own lives and the scary thing is now, Phyllis, we have these people in all levels of government of the United States, including in the White House and the West Wing of the White House. </blockquote>Brian TashmanEnvironmentPhyllis SchlaflyC3Eagle Forum Fighting the RightBrian Sussman40021Tue, 22 May 2012 16:00:24 -0500EnvironmentSatanic Earth-Worshiping Militant Environmentalists are Funding Islamic Terrorismhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/satanic-earth-worshiping-militant-environmentalists-are-funding-islamic-terrorism
<p>It had been a while since James Dobson did a series of <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/dobson-and-boykin-expose-muslim-conspiracy-take-over-world">radio programs</a> designed to terrify his audience about the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/boykin-terrifies-dobson-dire-warnings-americas-pending-islamification">looming threat</a> of an Islamic take over of the world, and so he has returned to the topic this week with the help of guest Michael Youssef who graciously offered his "<a href="http://www.drjamesdobson.org/Broadcasts/Broadcast?i=a5068ed2-d035-4a83-bc78-b4a22ccc91dc">Insights on Radical Islam</a>."</p>
<p>And just what sorts of insights did Youssef have for Dobson and his audience?&nbsp; Well, when Dobson wanted to know why Americans oppose domestic drilling for oil even though our dependence on foreign oil funds terrorism, Youssef explained that it was because lots of people don't love America coupled with the fact that environmentalism is a militant religion no different than Radical Islam, prompting Dobson to declare that "there's something Satanic about this":</p>
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<p><strong>Dobson</strong>: I have great difficulty understanding why, here in the United States, 300 million people have more or less acquiesced to the refusal to drill our own oil and we remain silent when that's really the core of the finances behind this anger and threat against our country.</p>
<p><strong>Youssef</strong>: Well, I just think there are people who don't really love America. Let's just be blunt about it. I think that America is not primary in their thinking. I think sometimes as an immigrant who loves this country so deeply and I look and I see how people who were born in this country not only take it for granted but they literally don't care about it and they don't care about the exceptionalism, they don't care about its future. And therefore the policies are reflected, so many of those people are behind the scenes, we don't see them but they are the policymakers, they write the policy.</p>
<p><strong>Dobson</strong>: Are we going to wait until the blow away a city, or two, or three, or four? It just seems to me that there's something Satanic about this.</p>
<p><strong>Youssef</strong>: You have another religion also at play here, so it's not just Islam. We have a very fanatic religious people who worship Mother Earth, the environmentalists. They are as militant about their religion and protecting their goddess - and I'm not exaggerating - and therefore, to them, the environment and planet earth is the most important thing to defend. They are not going to allow anything to happen to their goddess - Gaia, the Mother Earth - and therefore, again, this is back in the policy area, all those who are running the EPA and all those folks, they are motivated by a powerful religion called earth worship.</p>
</blockquote>Kyle MantylaEnvironmentJames Dobson Michael YoussefC3Fighting the Right40013Tue, 22 May 2012 10:48:58 -0500EnvironmentCal Beisner Warns the 'Depraved' Environmental Movement Models itself after Satanhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beisner-depraved-environmental-movement-models-satan
<p>The Religious Right&rsquo;s favorite anti-environmental activist Cal Beisner of the Cornwall Alliance appeared on Janet Parshall&rsquo;s radio show <a href="http://www.moodyradio.org/radioplayer.aspx?episode=88401&hour=1"><em>In The Market</em></a> on Monday where he maintained that environmentalists are following the same path as Satan. Ironically, the <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/rww-in-focus/the-green-dragon-slayers-how-the-religious-right-and-the-corporate-right-are-joining-fo#relgpower">corporate-allied</a> Beisner lamented the presence of &ldquo;theft,&rdquo; &ldquo;covetousness&rdquo; and &ldquo;greed&rdquo; in society, which he said that along with &ldquo;sexual perversion&rdquo; and disobedience were part of &ldquo;the growing depravity in the United States,&rdquo; which he of course linked back to the environmental movement. Beisner later used the refrain, used by conservatives from <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/santorum-and-green-dragon-faith-based-attacks-environmentalism-nothing-new-religious-right">Rick Santorum</a> to <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/david-barton-environment-abortion-and-michael-vick">David Barton</a>, that efforts toward environmental protection are dislodging God and humanity from their rightful place and is turning the natural order &ldquo;upside down just as Satan did in the Garden of Eden.&rdquo;</p>
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<blockquote> As I look at the growing depravity in the United States, whether it&rsquo;s in those things that most of us think about in terms of depravity, sexual perversion and so on, or in those things that people don&rsquo;t usually think of in those terms but Paul certainly does: theft, disobedience to parents, dishonoring of authorities, covetousness, greed, idolatry. All of these things are signs of the depraved mind to which God gives people over when they choose not to recognize Him. The Cornwall Alliance is trying to call attention to these things to show particularly how they are dominant in the environmentalist movement.<br />
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It turns upside down the whole understanding that Scriptures gives us of God, man and the earth. In Scripture, in Genesis 1-3, we see that God is supposed to be in supreme authority, He rules over man, man then rules earth as God&rsquo;s representative, so hierarchically it&rsquo;s God, then humanity, then the earth. The environmental movement turns that upside down just as Satan did in the Garden of Eden as he tempted Eve, he wanted Eve to submit her will to a serpent, one of the creatures, and put that serpent over her and God under her, so it becomes earth, then humanity, then God. That happens in the secular movement but frankly, Janet, it increasingly begins to happen among some evangelicals. <br />
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